Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 | ISSUE 48•39 | MORE NEWS IN BRIEF ARTICLE TOOLS Share on Tumblr RELATED ARTICLES Senator Mix-A-Lot Sponsors Titties-On-Glass Legislation Madeline Albright Sworn In As Secretary CHARLESTON, WV—According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than U.S. presidentBarack Obama. “I like him better,” said West Virginia resident Dale Swiderski, who, along with 77 percent of rural Caucasian voters, confirmed he would much rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad, a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed, than spend time with Obama. “He takes national defense seriously, and he’d never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does.” According to the same Gallup poll, 60 percent of rural whites said they at least respected that Ahmadinejad doesn’t try to hide the fact that he’s Muslim.